Although enslaved people ran away from the very beginning (early in the seventeenth century), the last sixty years of the "Peculiar Institution" saw a massive increase in the number of fugitives who sought refuge in the North, Canada, and Mexico.

The underground railroad: A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, & c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others or witnessed by the author : together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road.

Name:

Still, William (1821-1902) - Author

Published:

1872

Location:

Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture